Screen real estate is tight, even on a 13" iPad set in horizontal 2-up display. I use ImageMagick to straighten and tightly trim all but one pixel or so of margin from around the staff systems. I also trim off publisher and copyright information since I have no interest in those filling up precious screen space while playing or studying the music. But by trimming that information off of the scanned page I feel that this information should be placed in the file in some other form. I've been using the keywords field for this information.
Thoughts?
Here's a one page example. This was a one page ratty photo copy with pencil marks that was transcribed into Sibelius, exported as PDF, then converted to a 600dpi TIFF to mimic a document scan. I understand that the exported PDF is preferred but to show what I mean by trimming off margins I do this:
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magick ~/Desktop/Canzonetta.tif \
-alpha off -colorspace gray \
-set option:deskew:auto-crop true \
-background white -deskew 80% +repage \
-bordercolor white -border 0.05% \
-threshold 50% -depth 1 -compress Group4 \
~/Desktop/Canzonetta.pdf